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By: Tal Barzilaihttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-542843
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:26:43 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-542843The most Bloomberg will do is give them nothing more than a slap on the wrist. When the media is no longer covering, he will probably tell them to do it some more. I highly doubt he even took notice before this became news. Then again, I wouldn’t be surprised if he allowed for this in the first place.
]]>By: cathttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-542341
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:04:41 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-542341ms. turner, whatever you think of christine quinn, she has modeled herself after – and is guided by – mayor bloomberg. If you think poorly of her, he is much worse. Just slicker.
]]>By: tomhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-542329
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:56:37 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-542329Please Mr. Bloomberg. Remove the stench of hack City Council politics and get rid of these forces from your campaign. otherwise you could forget about my vote.
]]>By: Perley J. Thibodeauhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-542309
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:59:12 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-542309This is only going to go the way of all of Bloomberg’s promises.
Right into the forgotten file.
No one is going to do anythng about Christine Quinn’s doing just as she pleases because everyone else is doing just as they please, too!
]]>By: ms. turnerhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-542001
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:50:15 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-542001I am glad the Times is taking this brewing scandal seriously.

Mayor Bloomberg should too. We need to bring the city back to the time where you could depend on some of the actors in government and the press to be above the slime. I remember the days of the NY Times Editorial Board, Bobby Wagner, Ed Costykian, Victor Kovner. When government service was a calling, not a reservoir for misfits and miscrants trying to steal, chisel, and conive their way to some nirvana of percieved stature and status.

Mayor Bloomber is above all the City Council nonsense with the contributions and the slush stuff. I dont like any of it.

I am one of those people who held my nose and voted against Quinn (who is qualified but so questionable in her behavior). I dont even remember which of her opponents I voted for. I am just tired of this and I expect that Mayor Mike will deal with this promptly and swiftly, just as he has guided our city for the last 8 years.

]]>By: MEBQhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-541973
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:21:58 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-541973I have a hard time believing that anyone, including Mr. Marbury, would support the following:

1) Maura Kenney was in charge of passing “pay to play” legislation as Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislation. She was a senior city employee, working for the Speaker of the City Council, and one of her closest friend and long time aides. Accoring to the NY Times, she solicits $40,000 in donations from special interests who want a carve out of the “pay to play” legislation.

2) The person who allegdely solicited the donations,
Maura Keeney, is clearly and unquestionably prohibited by city law from soliciting 1 PENNY from ANYBODY for ANY political campaign in NYC, let alone $40,000 from special interests who have an issue before her.

3) The pay to play legislation DID IN FACT carve out the unions. The NY Times reported that this was confidentially reported to the unions, before being voted on by the City Council, by the same person who solicited the $40,000, all happening concurrently.

Could someone have orchestrated a more horrible, inappropiate scenerio ?

]]>By: Donny Mosshttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-541781
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:14:05 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-541781In September, The Village Voice reported that Quinn used over 30 city employees to campaign for her on weekdays. Now we learn that Quinn took major donations from labor unions in exchange for leaving them out of the campaign finance legislation which is supposed to limit these contributions. Quinn breaks the law over and over with impunity while Bloomberg calls her “the most honest person I know.”

]]>By: Donny Mosshttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-541749
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-541749Can the NY Times please ask Bloomberg what happened to his Department of Investigatons’ probe into Christine Quinn’s multimillion dollar slush fund? City Hall insiders speculate that Bloomberg called off the investigation when Quinn strong-armed the city council into extending term limits for him. The fact that we haven’t seen a report in the 1.5 years since Quinn was busted seems to confirm the speculation that she and Bloomberg cut a dirty back room deal.
]]>By: dan marburyhttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/comment-page-1/#comment-541745
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:38:50 +0000http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/bloomberg-to-review-actions-of-campaign-aide/#comment-541745in the world of political misdeeds, this is in the category ‘who cares?’

Candidates fundraise, it’s a fact of life. They solicit contributions from donors – including donors who lobby. You can’t get money out of politics, but you actually can mitigate it by passing public financing of elections systems – just like the one Quinn passed.